Usually means: Covered with or resembling thistles.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. thistly: Merriam-Webster
  2. thistly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thistly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. thistly: Wordnik
  5. thistly: Wiktionary
  6. thistly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. thistly: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Thistly, thistly: Dictionary.com
  9. Thistly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. thistly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Thistly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. thistly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. thistly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. thistly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thistly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thistly: Medical dictionary

(Note: See thistle as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (thistly)

▸ adjective:  Covered in thistles.
▸ adjective:  Resembling a thistle.

Similar:
thistled, thickety, briared, brambly, spiny, furzed, thistlish, herbaged, prickly, briered, more...

Opposite:
smooth, soft, silky, velvety

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Similar:
thistled, thickety, briared, brambly, spiny, furzed, thistlish, herbaged, prickly, briered, more...

Opposite:
smooth, soft, silky, velvety



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